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Friday, April 12, 2013

Kerrville in the 1950s: the hospital, Penney's, Lehmann's, and Schreiner's

This is a shot of the north side of the 700 block of Water Street in downtown Kerrville, showing the hospital, J C Penney's, Lehmann's, and the Schreiner Company. I remember these buildings, though by the time I was a boy Lehmann's had become Winn's. None of these buildings remain today, save the Schreiner building.

I remember going into Lehmann's barefoot and coming out with black soles as a child. But it was one of my favorite destinations, usually with my grandmother Wilma (Bill) Meyners for marbles or cheap toys.

Was it Lehmann's or J.C. Penney in which they put your money in a canister and then shot it upstairs? And you would wait and your change would come back down in that canister. All money handling was done upstairs in the balcony.